Posts tagged as The Washington Post
Local Newspaper Struggles With Its 'Real Housewives' Crack Habit
Once you know that the reality TV "star" "phenomenon" is merely a set of nonsense network-packaged narratives, stories and characters deployed to capitalize on the news outlets that need "information" to sell their own products, particularly when those news outlets don't care that the information they present is actually the product being sold itself, and that the whole thing is a business ploy wherein publicity is made through various entities using other entities in a cash-funded reputation market, well then there's no point in treating reality TV as a cultural product. Sorry, Hank Stuever! You're right about reality TV, but you're just feeding the beast. Particularly since your Washington Post newspaper is running a "preview" of the "latest installment" of Real Housewives alongside your criticism. Reality television is only a capitalist product-a great one, in those terms, as it lends itself to multiple repackaging and distribution. (See also: "LAUNCH PHOTO GALLERY"!) But the only way out is all the way out. We know for a fact that you can sell newspapers another way.
Stolen Goods
Tom Scocca: You are familiar with the "Free for All" page of the Saturday Washington Post? READ MORE
Understanding How Obama Is Not Robbing The Rich For His Scary Social Agenda
Be vigilant, America-your entrepreneurs are on the hook for bigger tax payments! That was the plain moral of an addled page one dispatch from this morning's Washington Post. The bulk of the piece, by Lori Montgomery and V. Dion Hayes, plies the heart-wrenching tale of one Gail Johnson, who operates a multistate chain of preschools out of Richmond, Virginia, and as the possessor of $500,000-plus annual income, faces the prospect of a 19 percent increase in her tax liability, from $120,000 to $143,000. READ MORE
